Google's currency converter faces glitches, shows wrong Pak rupee rates
January 16, 2019
KARACHI: Google's online exchange rate converter experienced glitches Tuesday night as it showed incorrect values of various currencies against the Pakistani rupee.
In what could have possibly become a major market-wide panic had this happened after the opening bell, the values of the US dollar, euro, the United Arab Emirates (UAE/Emirati) dirham, and the Saudi riyal in terms of the Pakistani rupee were shown on Google as Rs76.25, Rs87.01, Rs20.76, and Rs20.33, respectively.
However, the data was proved incorrect by Bloomberg, which, on its portal, indicated that the values of the US dollar, euro, and the Emirati dirham in terms of the Pakistani rupee were Rs139.38, Rs159.04, Rs37.95, and Rs37.16, respectively.
The glitch has since been fixed.
